I wove homegrown & homespun linen! || Craftmas Day 4
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- I've come so far from over a year ago when I first planted my flax, to now weaving a piece of cloth with my home grown, homespun linen! I love weaving, and I'm so happy I got to weave my first piece back at this loom with very special yarn.
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Engineering knits is a place for people who enjoy all kinds of vintage and antique crafts - from sewing to knitting, crochet to embroidery I like to try it all. I definitely have a preference for historical fibre crafts, and it is my dream to one day make an entire outfit from sheep to sweater. I hope you enjoy watching me and my favorite companion, Nutella, struggle through some fascinating projects!
Seeing this whole process really makes me realize why fabric was so expensive and precious before the industrial revolution. The length of time it takes for each individual component of fabric is mind blowing. Imagine the number of hours that went into making a single yard of fabric, and then imagine how many yards of fabric go into a single outfit.
With a yarn that precious, I would've tied onto a sacrificial/dummy warp. Basically you dress the loom with a short warp of a strong, inexpensive yarn. Then you tie your actual warp to the front of that sacrificial warp before winding it on too. It's more work, but minimizes the waste of your hand-spun yarn.
I’m not a weaver but that was my first thought when I saw all the wasted flax.
This reminds me of a friend of mine who has woodwork in his house that is his from tree to finish. He started with some trees on his property and went through the whole cutting, drying, planking, shaping, and finishing process himself. He's one of the few people I know who is a good woodworker in the absence of modern tools. And there's something beautiful about being able to say "I made this, including the pegs holding it together". Anyway, I'm just over here being sentimental about ancient skills :)
This is wonderful! How amazing to look at a piece of fabric and know that you worked with every single part of it 🤩 And I'm fully expecting the next Craftmas to start with "I bought a sheep!!!"
You should be very proud of producing from seed to wall artwork and taking us along. Thank you ❤
Yay! I'm loving this series so much! Thank you for sharing your journey. You went for it, and your woven twill linen is GORGEOUS. ❤🌱🧶🙌
I love how you just go for it, with whatever you decide to do. And bringing us along, too!
Your piece turned out beautiful, and to know you did it all from seed to finished has been very interesting to watch. Thank you so much for sharing. I always look forward to seeing what you manage to come up with next.
It looks great! Twill can be so stunning for a relatively simple pattern, I just always love the way it looks.
What a beautiful result, even nicer, because you did every step from seeds to fabric. Congratulations!
I totally get being overwhelmed trying to learn to weave from books - I had my first warp on my floor loom for 15 years before a course on Craftsy helped me fully understand the craft. Now that you're several steps along the steep learning curve, keep the online Jane Stafford School of Weaving in mind if you ever want to take a deep dive into weaving. What you've accomplished here on your own is amazing and was a fascinating series to watch.
As an engineer, you might feel more of an affinity for Janet Dawson, instructor of the Craftsy course and recent founder of Handweaving Academy, who comes from a technical field herself. Both Janet and Jane are outstanding teachers in the online community.
i have been loving this series so much, but I've also been sitting here for the entirety of it going "you cannot afford another crafting hobby you cannot afford another crafting hobby you cannot afford another crafting hobby"
seriously though, thank you for taking us on this journey! it was really fascinating, and truly SO much work, you're a trooper ❤
The day I signed up for a linen processing and spinning course, you came out with this series and then @jilianeve did her live on it. I feel like the stars are aligning in a magical Christmas way. I so enjoyed this and was waiting for the next video to drop.
What always stands out for me is your ability to work with and around your perfectionism. Would you say craft has taught you to do that?
❤ Frohe Weinachten ❤
This is so cool - And super inspiring! I have been learning to spin the last few months and Evie’s channel has been indispensable. I joined her Patreon for her self directed course and I am learning so much!
Can't watch just yet, but had to comment that seeing the thumbnail made me literally say out loud, "wow beautiful"
so much fun, watching you through the whole process to a final piece.
A wall hanging is a perfect use for this as it showcases your work and you can admire it whenever you want.
Of course, the setup for any of these crafts is what takes the longest. I find this is true of sewing - laying out, cutting the pieces and preparing them takes ages, the sewing up not so much.
Probably what stops me getting involved in quite a few crafts - for the best, as I am running out of room as it is.
Wish I could give you more than one like! I'll never do this myself, and it's so incredibly interesting to watch your progress.
So far I’ve not been bitten by the weaving bug, warping a loom looks altogether too much like hard work - but I might be tempted by some inkle loom weaving.
And then there are probably cautionary tales of innocent young maidens led astray from inkle loom weaving to just a small table loom with just a couple of heddles (and some tablets) to a floor loom with multiple heddles.
My spellcheck has not been programmed to include weaving terms.
Love your finished work, by the way. You have every right to be proud of it.
Congrats on your project! It looks great! One thing, for twills you may choose to utilize a floating selvage, that way the weft catches on the sides and the work won't lean in. Linen fabrics can withstand a LOT of rough treatment and the "harsher" the softer it makes the linen. You could experiment with mangling, thwacking..etc if you want to see if it will get softer (it does depend on which fibers were spun but you can get it to soften it by rough housing it a bit...LOL) or not, it's up to you.
Congratulations! Beautiful job. I hate the waste when weaving, it must be worse after growing, spinning, dying then weaving and having so.much.waste.
Thank you for sharing your journey with us❤️ I love watching your videos🥰
Next vlog, we meet her sheep.😁
You should be so proud! What a lot you've learned and had some fun at the same time! Brava!
Thanks so much for sharing this journey with us! I've enjoyed every step, and look forward to what's coming next 😊
Love, love love your channel! I get excited to see your new videos.
Omg I love you so much! I love the fact that these wonderful craft machines keep appearing - are you actually still able to move around your apartment 😂😂😂😂 I mean , don’t get me wrong - I’d far rather have the machines than the space - but you do make me chuckle!
I have been enjoying this video series about how you have gone through the whole process
Wow amazing work! From seed to textile, that is quite an accomplishment, well done! I noticed you mentioned that your teacher retired, if you are in the LA area there are weaving classes during the day and on Wednesday evenings through the Charter Oak Adult school. They have one large room and a smaller back room full of floor looms, with a few small table looms on the side.
Its been fascinating and so enjoyable to watch the whole process, you did an amazing job
Nice work! I tried weaving. The number of places to completely screw up the warp was just too scary for me!
I've gotta say this was so interesting and informative, I love your piece you made be proud every time you look at it on the wall , you did incredible work !! I had no idea what was involved in the process of this loved this so much !! Thank You for this !! And you did it Girl !! Congrats !!
This came out absolutely stunning! I'm so excited to see you weaving! What a beautiful tapestry. Twills are my favorite. Also that shawl that you showed at the beginning of the video was lovely.
Warp is always a pain- but you should be able to figure out a way to warp your warping board to be shorter. (just don't use all the pegs) I don't know if it's so big that you wouldn't be able to do that, but sometimes I go up and down the sides of mine. As long as you make sure to add a cross somewhere so your threads keep in the same order you should be good. I usually cut a piece of yarn to the length I want it to be, and tie it on so that I have a "path" to follow.
So beautiful
I've been watching these and every time my fiancé has seen it he's just looked at me and gone "so when are you trying this one?" 😅
Linen can be tricky to weave with. I think I’ll start with a cotton/linen mix.
Congratulations! It must feel great to have done all that. Are you aware of Crowing Hen here on RUclips? She makes fabulous weaving videos.
It’s stunning ❤you are a fiber goddess ✨
Oooohhhh I've wanted to try this sans loom myself
I’m so proud of you and I don’t even know you lol. Great series!
A wonderful series. Please can you clarify, is the yellow stripe the home grown and wild flax, spun together?
It’s beautiful!
I'm thinking table loom lazy susan!Susan! (@~5 minutes ❤)
I am so glad you are hanging your piece on the wall. You should be very proud of what your have accomplished. It is yours from start to finish, which is something few of us can say. 👏
Girl if it isn’t knitting that amazing White, Black, & Red sweater I’m gonna riot haha
You are such an inspiration to me, loved seeing this finished object after following along the last few videos!
What an accomplishment! Very fascinating. Thank you.
That is a beautiful mini tapestry. Are you going to do anything with the remainder of the linen warp you had to cut off?
love this series--being an engineer myself, i've always wanted to see the process from seed to textile. thank you so much for doing and sharing!
Wow - Not only did you learn LOADS of new skills along the way , but you made a beautiful piece of art. It's going to be fun to see a variety of fiber arts from your channel.
Wonderful work! I have a very small piece of back strap weaving that I did which is also hanging as a little tapestry. I didn't realize until I was doing it that it really wasn't right for my body, so I stopped and hung up my successful portion. I want to get a small rigid heddle loom some time, but am sticking with knitting for now.
What a wonderful adventure you took us on! Thank you!
Thats was a really awesome trip and makes one appreciate how fabric is made, especially natural fabrics. When I was a student at UNiversity many decades ago, I did an evening beginners weaving course at a College. We did not weave an article like your lovely scarf, but a long sampler, weaving different yarns, patterns and techniques
Wahoo!!!! Beautiful work!!!
Watching the whole process of this linen making has been so much more emotional than i expected!! So inspired to learn more about textiles
You are so inspiring.
This process was so fun to watch! This project of yours and a few other videos I've seen (mostly Shorts/Reels/short videos etc.) got me thinking about how recently our lifestyles were subsistence-based. I started to think on it not with derision, as if it was constant work in order to meet our basic needs, but rather a whole different perspective where our individual needs were at the forefront of our day-to-day. We needed to clothe ourselves, feed ourselves, take care of the spaces we lived in. Nowadays, it feels so difficult to tend to our basic needs and reconnect with ourselves, and slowing down to figure out what the most basic start-to-finish process is for things we take for granted is a way to really appreciate what we have now and who came before us.
Congratulations! This was so fun to watch. I love your little textile. It will be lovely to look at. This sure seemed to be a growth project. Gives me inspiration!
I'm pretty sure warping gives everyone a headache. But kudos to you for doing it yourself and being amazing!
This has been so cool to watch! I have been fascinated by spinning, natural dyeing, weaving, and other crafts since I was a kid.
Ive recently become very interested in making my own plant fiber yarn and your videos has been very informative! Nettle is also used to make fabrics with almost the same process and (at least where l live) it growns wild where most people are happy for you to take it, and the leaves from the nettle can also be used as dye!
This project came out so great! And so rewarding to see the results of all that work every day. I admit, I have loom envy because it really is a lovely one!
Honestly, this makes me realize why fabric with a lot of prints was sooooooo expensive!!!
Hi. Maybe as a first loom you should've got a rigid heddle. Easier to learn, not as involved to set up, and you can still do alot of pattern in your weaving
I went to school for weaving! My city has an art college that has a textiles program. I have a diploma in weaving, yet i dont have the money or space to have a loom and it makes me so damn sad i cant even do what im skilled in. I also learned to spin, and I have been able to do that, because i have a drop spindle.
So amazing work ❤❤❤
So lovely. You’ve gotten this old dog wanting to try new tricks.
Does the next project have anything to do with Toadstools? 😊
It's beautiful! I didn't know there is so much waste of the thread.
You must feel so proud of this. It was a tiny seed and now it’s cloth!
So cool!!! 💚
Totally love everything about it!😊
That is such a cool accomplishment!
That was amazing, thank you!
Very good results!
Cool 😀
What a wonderful project! An absolute joy to see it all come together ❤
I heard that keeping the linen yarn moist at all times really helps make it stronger and keep it as even as it'll get
Edit: nevermind you already knew^^ i would just constantly spray it regularly personally, i believe is wasn't uncommon historically to cover the floor with hot water when weaving linen in dry conditions (must've been great for the flooring lol)
What a great project! I love the tapestry.
What an amazing job you have done! Definitely not for the faint hearted, but you’ve created an amazing textile that you can say, with confidence, I MADE THAT, from the ground up! Well done! ❤
Yey, she did it🎉 well done, the pattern is fab and using the finished piece as a hanging is perfect. You should be very proud of yourself. What a project! Loved it❤️
The wall hanging is beautiful! And maybe you can find an old wooden knitting needle for the hanging. We had some when I was a kid learning how to knit, so it was 60 years ago, and they were much older, I believe.
Congratulations on a job done. I appreciate all the work it took to make this piece of weaving.